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+---
+license: cc-by-4.0
+language:
+- en
+pipeline_tag: interleaved-text-image
+tags:
+- multimodal
+library_name: transformers
+---
+
+# Align-Anything Chameleon 7B Base
+
+## Introduction
+
+Repository for Align-Anything Chameleon 7B Base, a powerful model for text-image interleaved input and output. This model is based on the [Chameleon](https://huggingface.co/facebook/chameleon-7b) model, and is trained on the [Align-Anything](https://github.com/PKU-Alignment/Align-Anything) framework to further unlock its capability of image generation. 
+
+## Usage
+
+To use this model, you can refer to the [Align-Anything](https://github.com/PKU-Alignment) repository for more details, including the training, inference and evaluation:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/PKU-Alignment/align-anything.git
+cd align-anything/projects/text_image_to_text_image
+```
+
+Then follow the instructions in the README.md file to set up the environment and run the scripts.
+
+Currently, the official Transformer repo does not support Chameleon model with image output (see [this PR](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/32013) for more details), so we rely on a certain fork of the repo.
+
+After installing Align-Anything and correctly set up the envrionment, you can install the forked stable version of the repo by running:
+
+```bash
+pip install git+https://github.com/htlou/transformers.git@hantao_stable_cham
+```
+
+If you want to generate image (pure text generation can be directly done by `Transformers`), you can follow the instructions in the [mmsg_chameleon](https://github.com/htlou/mmsg_chameleon) repo to run the inference.
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/htlou/mmsg_chameleon.git
+cd mmsg_chameleon
+```
+
+Then set up the envrionment using 
+```bash
+pip install -e . 
+```
+
+After setting up the envrioment, set up the correct paths in `scripts/interleaved_gen.sh` and then run
+```bash
+bash scripts/interleaved_gen.sh
+```